Last week the European Commission published Recommendation (EU) 2020/403 on the conformity assessment and market surveillance procedures for Personal Protective Equipment (“PPE”) and medical devices within the scope of COVID-19. In view of the sharp increase in demand, the Commission wants economic operators in the supply chain and market surveillance bodies and authorities to employ all possible […]
Large-scale quarantines, travel restrictions, and social-distancing measures following COVID-19 are driving serious social and economic consequences. How is COVID-19 impacting at the level of antitrust, state aid and merger control (M&A) proceedings? Antitrust Competition law has seemingly not been suspended. The objective of ensuring a level playing field between companies remains. However, the occasion calls […]
With the purpose of ensuring liquidity for companies, preserve their activity and the job posts they create, Decree-Law no. 10-F/2020, of March 26, established an exceptional and temporary regime of compliance with tax obligations and Social Security contributions, in the context of the COVID-19 disease pandemic, namely by making the respective payment more flexible. This […]
On March 18, 2020, Law no. 1-A / 2020 (hereinafter, “Law”) was approved, establishing exceptional and temporary measures in response to the epidemiological situation caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease COVID -19. Pursuant to the provisions of article 7, paragraph 3 of this Law, the “suspension of the limitation and prescription periods related […]
On January 14, 2020, the Portuguese Data Protection Supervisory Authority (“Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados”, hereinafter “CNPD”) issued an opinion about the Proposed Law No. 5/XI/1 (GOV) which approved the State Budget for 2020, expressing its concern about the possible unconstitutionality of certain provisions on the protection of personal data (Opinion/20204). However, in the […]
A. Context To minimize the medium- and long-term economic impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Member States have implemented a broad range of measures, including some forms of moratorium on payments of credit obligations, to support the operational and liquidity challenges faced by borrowers. Notwithstanding being vested of different forms, moratoria generally have the same […]
The coronavirus pandemic has caused governments across the world to take measures that impact the movement of people rarely, if ever, seen in peacetime before. Understandably, this has adversely affected […]
Read moreForeward by Andrew Chilvers The coronavirus pandemic has caused governments across the world to take measures that impact the movement of people rarely if ever, seen in peacetime before. Understandably, this has adversely affected businesses and created a host of employment law issues in every country. When the first case of coronavirus – or COVID-19 […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Paulo Lopes of EWP Business Consulting. Paulo has joined IR as our exclusive Business & Asset Valuations Member in Portugal. EWP follow the excellence in all the work done. We assume the daily commitment to develop and put all our knowledge and […]
VCA launched new office at Amoreiras. The new space is located on the 16th floor at Torre 3, Amoreiras, in Lisbon. The firm’s expansion made it inevitable to seek for additional office space. We designed a new functional, state of the art law office in one of the most iconic office buildings of the capital. […]
The publication inaugurated here seeks to embody the values that characterise SÉRVULO.This newsletter, given the indivisible communications component inherent to the provision of legal services, intends to serve as an extension of and supplement to direct contact with the client: comprising, in accessible terms, an information vehicle and one of digested reflection. Hence, it is a […]
The breakneck speed at which legal developments occur has established itself as the new paradigm for the current century. It, therefore, seems fit to remember a famous phrase by the most recent Nobel Laureate for Literature, Bob Dylan: There is nothing so stable as change. To illustrate this, the first article of this edition of SÉRVULO‘s Portuguese […]
